S.1325, Willam? Northampton, -

Stephen (1135-54), Penny, 0.93g, Northampton, Willam (?), crowned and diademed bust right, holding sceptre in right hand, rev. + [...]E[.] N. NOH, rev. cross moline, annulets at ends, pellet in annulet in each angle (Mack 197; S.1325), an extremely rare type with a clear mint signature. Images and selected text reproduced by kind permission of Spink and Son Ltd, London.  Provenance: Baldwin auction 19, 4 May 1999, lot 451.  BNJ Coin Register 1993, no. 260.  Metal dector find, Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, summer 1993.  A classic late Watford type obverse with a very distinctive reverse, the only known example.